Jacqueline Boyer (born 23 April 1941) is a French singer and actress.
The daughter of top French performers Lucienne Boyer and Jacques Pills and stepdaughter of Edith Piaf, Boyer was born Jacqueline Ducos in Paris. She had her career traced in the music hall like her parents, and made some appearances in recitals of her mother from adolescence. Her father is best known for having been the husband for four years of the famous Edith Piaf , leaving Jacqueline Boyer's mother for her. At the age of 15 she made the first of several stage appearances alongside Marlene Dietrich at the Théâtre de l'Étoile and faced with a positive reception decided to continue as a performer by taking singing lessons.
As well as French, she released a German version which became a big hit. From then on, she led a double career, in France and in Germany. She performed in tours, shows and galas in both countries. In November 1960, Jacqueline married the French singer François Luciana.
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In 1979 she left France for New York, to give a new artistic impulse to her career, recording under the name of Barbara Benton, which led in 1983 to the release of the single "Life Is New" and in 1984 the album "Time And Time Again" but in 1988, recorded a new album in French under her own name.
In 2010, Jacqueline published the book “Story of three extraordinary lives” which consists of a tribute to the worldwide famous French singer Edith Piaf and to her mother Lucienne Boyer. It includes mixed anecdotes about Edith Piaf, Lucienne Boyer and her father Jacques Pills, who married both women, and her own renditions of some of the songs they created.Jacqueline Boyer is the President of the Friends of Edith Piaf society, besides being involved, together with Eurovision representatives Serge Lama and Isabelle Aubret, in an association which deals with the difficulties encountered by artists who have suffered from any accidents.
(Edited from Melody tv, Wikipedia, & esctoday.com )